Why watch news matters.https://thecrownjournal.com/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/bovet/recital-18-shooting-star/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/bovet/recital-18-shooting-star/For the Récital 18 Shooting Star, released in 2016, Bovet asked a cartographer for a map that does not exist in nature: the entire Earth on a single hemisphere. Around it came a second hemisphere for the moon, two rollers carrying twenty-four city names, jumping hours over retrograde minutes, and a five-day tourbillon. Fifty pieces, red or white gold. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/daniel-roth/extra-plat-rose-gold/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/daniel-roth/extra-plat-rose-gold/At the 25th Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, the Time Only prize went to a watch of two hands and no complications. The Extra Plat Rose Gold is 7.7 mm thin, its lugs are soldered to the double-ellipse case one by one, and the maison states its manual calibre DR002 will serve as the base for the collection's future complications. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/gerald-charles/masterlink-gem-set/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/gerald-charles/masterlink-gem-set/The Masterlink's bezel is not a square, so every one of the sixty baguettes on the Gem-Set had to be cut to its own place. Blue sapphire, red sapphire or green tsavorite, on a steel bracelet, ten of each. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/hublot/mp-17-arsham-splash/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/hublot/mp-17-arsham-splash/The MP-17 takes the droplet of Arsham's pocket watch and turns it into a wristwatch: a splash-shaped opening cut into the dial, under a frosted, box-shaped sapphire bezel, on a 42 mm titanium case with a manual Meca-10 and ten days of reserve. Ninety-nine pieces. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/jacob-and-co/billionaire-angel-cut/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/jacob-and-co/billionaire-angel-cut/The Angel cut is a stepped rectangle with a lozenge table, patented by the brand and named after Angela Arabov. The watch it debuts on is a fully set Billionaire with two flying tourbillons under a brick-wall dial, in white, yellow or black-treated diamonds. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/jacob-and-co/bugatti-tourbillon-sapphire-crystal/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/jacob-and-co/bugatti-tourbillon-sapphire-crystal/The engine-block automaton has always been the Bugatti Tourbillon's trick. In the Sapphire Crystal edition the case around it is corundum from every side, so the sixteen pistons and the tourbillon are visible from angles the metal versions hid. The blue one is the piece we photographed. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/panerai/luminor-31-giorni/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/panerai/luminor-31-giorni/Four barrels in series, 3.3 metres of mainsprings and a torque limiter define a selected 31-day operating window. The P.2031/S then stops with energy remaining, a choice Panerai says protects the mechanism. Limited to 200 Goldtech pieces. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/ulysse-nardin/ur-freak/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/ulysse-nardin/ur-freak/The first watch the two independents have built together keeps the Freak's rotating movement and replaces its display with URWERK's three-arm satellite. The carousel now turns once in three hours, and the whole thing wears a yellow rubber strap. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:02 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/artisans-de-geneve/arolla/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/artisans-de-geneve/arolla/A collector who spent years returning to the Arolla glacier asked a Geneva workshop to rework his Rolex Daytona in the blue of its ice caves: a sapphire dial, an invisible-set sapphire bezel, a skeletonised calibre 4130. The workshop holds no authorisation from Rolex and does not claim any. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:03:34 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/ulysse-nardin/diver-air/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/ulysse-nardin/diver-air/Ulysse Nardin has built what it calls the lightest mechanical dive watch ever made: under 52 grams on the wrist, strap included, with a movement that weighs seven. Its case sides and bezel began as fishing net and racing-boat carbon. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:03:34 GMThttps://thecrownjournal.com/articles/artisans-de-geneve/eternal-green/https://thecrownjournal.com/articles/artisans-de-geneve/eternal-green/A Geneva workshop opened up a Patek Philippe Aquanaut belonging to one of its clients, skeletonised the calibre by hand and gave the movement its Eternal Green treatment. It holds no authorisation from Patek Philippe and does not claim any. Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:44:28 GMT